Neighborhood markets growing into local chains

Supermercados compete with bigger stores by serving immigrants' tastes By JENALIA MORENO Trays of beef soup, stuffed chiles and pupusas tantalize the lunch rush at the Supermercados Teloloapan taqueria. Stacks of fresh tortillas, sandwich bread known as bolillos and sugar-topped sweet breads fill the bakery of the Gulfton-area store. In the butcher's department, chicken feet, cow tongue and tripe line the display case. What you won't find here is the organic produce, soy milk or fresh eclairs sold in the international aisles of some of the big chains. Neighborhood stores like Teloloapan, La Michoacana Meat Market and Matamoros Meat Market stock their shelves with items that can complete an immigrant's shopping list. "They know they have to give them what they are looking for, or else they will lose them to a store that is... [read full story]